Coin-freed delivery apparatus for paper sheets or packages.



No. 730,382. A y PATENTED JUNE 9, 1903. B..MARTINI. GOIN FREED DELIVERYAPPARATUS FOR PAPER SHETS OR PACKAGES.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST MARTINI, or VIENNA,AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

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v SPEClFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,382, dated June9, 1903.

Application filed July 11, 1900. Serial No. 23,271. (No model.)

To all whom it r11/tty concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST MARTINI, manu- Jfacturer, a subject of theEmperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at v23Illartinstrassa in the cityof Vienna, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented a certain newand useful Coin-Freed Delivery Apparatus for Paper Sheets o r Packages,of which .the following is a specitcation.

This invention has reference to automatic coin -freed delivery devicesor apparatus which on the insertion of a coin of a certain denominationwill deliver a package or paper sheetssuch as circulars, programs,reports of quotations or races, toilet-paper, and the like-the turningof a crank bythe purchaser causing the articleY to leave the apparatus,while the coin of corresponding value drops into a special receptacle.

My invention is represented in the accompanying drawings in a preferredform ot' construction. i

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the apparatus withpart of the casing removed. Fig. 2 shows the cover of the casing for theapparatus. Fig. 3 illustrates the operation of the various parts. Fig. 4is a transverse section on the line C D of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is atransverse section on the line A B of Fig. 1.

In the drawings the apparatus is shown as applied to the delivery ofpaper sheets which are pinned to a pointed knife 1, fastened to themetal plate 3, which at its upper edge is pivoted in the wallsof thecasing 2. Springs 4 serve to push the plate r,'with the stack 5 of papersheets or packages, against the walls of the casing and provided thecasing is closed also against the rubber rollers and 12, mounted uponthe door 6 of the casing. Fig. 4 of the drawings shows small bundles oftoilet-paper with their free edges 8 pinned to the knife 1.. VThe rubber'rollers 7 and 12 are mounted upon the shaft 9, journaled at 10 and llinthe Walls of the casing. Next to the rubber roller 12 the shaft 9 isenlarged at 13. A longitudinal groove 14 is provided in the en largedportion of the shaft,to which is further connected a gear-wheel15 withsleeve 16, so as to be' displaced along the groove 14. Another shaft 17is journaled in the cover 6 of the casing upon a level with the shaft Agearof the bent lever, with its projection 22,

reaches below the end of the coin-chute 23. A second bent lever 24, alsopivoted tothe walls of the casing, with its projection 25, is soarranged that the coin can place itself between the projections 22 and25, thereby ed'ectinga connection of the twobent levers 2l and 24.

, The coin is introduced in the slot 26 and is guided through the tubeor chute 23 upon the projections 22 and 25. The purchaser then turns thecrank 19, and thereby eects a rotation of the gear-wheel 18 in thedirection indicated by the arrow; A pin 27, suitably secured to theVVsaidrgea'rfwheelTon .the

rotation of the same presses against the lower extremity of the bentlever 24, which movement, through the medium of the coin insortedbetween Athe two projections above mentioned, is transmitted to theother bent lever 21, which on. turning aboutits fulcrum throws thegear-wheel l5 into engagement with the gear-wheel 1S. This will causethe rotation of the shaft 9 and of the rubber rollers 7 and 12, which bytheir rotating movement will pull the package, bundle, or sheet of papernext to them ed the knife or pin 1, the package or the like being thendelivered to the purchaser through the slot 2S, provided in the casing2. As soon as the pin` 27 has passed beyond the extremity of the bentlever 24 the latter hy its momentum is brought hack into its formerposition, while the other bent lever 21 is retained in its position bythe spring actuating pin or projec- Y former position Iand o'lit ofengagement with the gearwheel 18.

v In order to obviate the necessity of turning the crank back each time,I provide a spring 32, one end of which is fastened to the shaft 17 andwhose other extremity is attached to the cover of the casing and whichis Wound up by tlie rotation of the crank 19. Upon the cra'nk beingreleased after it has passed the right-hand stop 20 the spring 32is-unwound, and thereby rotates the crank, so as toreturn it into itsnormal position.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 'of the UnitedStates, is-

1. Coin-freed delivery apparatus comprising delivery-rollers, gearingupon the shaft of said rollers, a crank-shaft and gearing upon saidcrank-shaft, a piu or stop connected to the gearing of the crank-shaft,a bent lever in the path of said pin or stop and actuated upon therotation of the latter, a second bent lever at such distance from theothei` bent lever as to allow of the retention of the coin between therespective extremities of the bent levers, a coupling on the shaft ofthe delivery-rollers and in' engagement with the sec'; ond bent leverand a tumbler connected to the crank-shaft to disengage the gearing anda spring to return the crank-shaft into its original position,substantially as described.

2. In a coin-freed delivery apparatus, in combination a crank-shaft,gearing in 'con'- nection with said crank-shaft, arotating pin operatedby said crank-shaft, two bent le,- Vers for retaining the coin, one otthe said bent levers resting against the rotating pin, a displaceablesleeve in connection with said gearing, the forkedeshaped end of theother bent lever straddling said sleeve, whereby the said gearing may bethrown into enga-gement, means to disengage the gearing and a spring toreturn the crank to its original position, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my naine inthe presence of two witnesses.

ERNST MARTINI.

XVitnesses:

ALvESTo S. HOGUE, AUGUST FUGGER.

